Author: CelticDCH Athletic Club

Sun 21st 11am HITW everyone

Tue 23rd 10.30am HITW everyone.

Hope you all enjoyed the cake run this morning.

Sat 20th Dec cake race for everyone. Meet at HITW at 10am. Under 14 and older bring a 5 euro wrapped gift for Kris Kindle and be ready to estimate your time for the two laps.

Under 13 and younger will run one lap of the senior course. Overall winner gets the cake, best boy and girl finisher next across the line gets a prize.
Under 13s don’t need to bring anything , just wear something red! Hot chocolate for all afterwards.

Sun 21st Dec no training for the under 13 group. Sprints group and older middle distance group meet at 11 at HITW.

Tue 23rd Dec HITW 10.30 HITW everyone

Sat 27th Dec HITW 10am sprints group and older middle distance group.

Sun 28th Dec HITW 11am anyone who’s around.
We will take a break from formal club training from 28/12 till Sat 3rd Jan. Feel free to meet up in your own groups if you are feeling antsy.

Sat 13th Dec sprints group Dunboyne track 9.30. Older middle distance group (under 14 and older ) Tolka Valley parkrun . Register on line . Meet at Pellettstown train station at 9am.

Sun 14th Dec HITW 11am everyone

Tue 16th Dec Grangegorman 7pm everyone

Thur 18th Dec indoor arena meet at 5.45 for 6pm start. Finish at 7pm. 4 euro
Revolut reminder.
2026 registration reminder! Forms on the website if you didn’t get one at training.

We had 4 athletes in action today in a very mucky Abbottstown at the National uneven age championships. First off was Darragh O Kane in the under 11 boys race over 1500m. Darragh ran a brace race finishing 36th overall, 4th Dublin athlete in. Darragh won his first national medal as Dublin came finished 2nd team in the inter county.

Lucas headed out over 3500m in the under 15 race, started off steady and worked his way up through the field to finish a superb 19th overall. This was a great run for Lucas following on his 17th in his own age group two weeks ago. His Dublin team won the inter County and also finished second region so two more shiny National medals for Lucas!

The girls under 17 ran a gruelling 4500m. Caroline and Saoirse both ran their best races ever , both running up an age group. Caroline finished in 39th place and Saoirse 63rd. Both have really improved this season and should get great encouragement from their results this winter.
Thank you to all the parents and friends who braved the conditions to support the athletes today. It was a tough one!

On Wednesday night Sean Finn came 3rd in the under 16 60m sprint at the NIA live competition in Abbottstown. A very good opening run just outside his personal best time.

On Thursday we had 8 girls in action for St Dominic’s cabra at the secondary schools relays in Abbottstown . Pearl, Maisy K, Maisy O and Jessica were very impressive winners of the A final under 16. Saoirse, Lelia, Ellen and Emma were equally impressive in the B final.

Well done to all.

Sat 6th Dec sprints group 9.30 Dunboyne track. No training today in the park. Sun 7th Dec 11am HITW everyone
Best of luck to Darragh, Lucas, Caroline and Saoirse at the national uneven age cross country in Abbottstown today.

Tue 9th Dec National indoor arena 7.30 till 9 pm. Assemble from 7.15. 4 euro Revolut reminder.

Thur 11th Dec 5.30 group meet at HITW. Everyone else Grangegorman at 7.